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Title: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: General Battuta on October 06, 2012, 02:12:28 pm

We've been working with it on BP and it's a godsend - please use M!M's new turret hotkey script in your missions! I honestly think it should even go in the MVPs (though maybe they'd rather wait for a codeside solution?)

Any Bearbaiting-style 'destroy this specific subsystem' objective is infinitely easier on the user experience if you can just hit F9 and have that subsystem or turret targeted.

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: Droid803 on October 06, 2012, 02:22:26 pm

It's stable now right? :)

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: Spoon on October 06, 2012, 03:03:33 pm

What is this and why have I never heard of this before.

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: headdie on October 06, 2012, 05:34:54 pm

Quote from: Spoon on October 06, 2012, 03:03:33 pm

What is this and why have I never heard of this before.

Battuta has had a call-to-arms about this on the scripting forum for a few days (about a week now?), not followed it beyond the opening exchanges myself, so you guys got this thing pretty nailed now then?

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: mjn.mixael on October 06, 2012, 06:04:19 pm

Well, as long as we are noting mad awesome scripts that everyone should consider using... Here's another. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=74716.0) Checkpoints for non-battutas and forget ever using that horrid red alert system again.

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: karajorma on October 06, 2012, 08:00:41 pm

I was planning on making the red-alert system non-horrible once antipodes is in trunk. This is definitely better than using red-alert in the meanwhile.

Hell, I'll have to check this out and see if it means I don't need to bother. :D

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: General Battuta on October 06, 2012, 09:04:25 pm

Quote from: mjn.mixael on October 06, 2012, 06:04:19 pm

Well, as long as we are noting mad awesome scripts that everyone should consider using... Here's another. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=74716.0) Checkpoints for non-battutas and forget ever using that horrid red alert system again.

This script is also amazing. I use it for checkpoints, it's way better than the original technique.

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: mjn.mixael on October 06, 2012, 09:26:28 pm

 :eek2:

Battuta has become a non-battuta!  :shaking:

How does that even work?

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: LordPomposity on October 07, 2012, 07:04:39 am

Quote from: mjn.mixael on October 06, 2012, 09:26:28 pm

:eek2:

Battuta has become a non-battuta!  :shaking:

How does that even work?

He becomes General FreeSpace.

Title: Re: Note to every mission designer in every mod (including Diaspora)
Post by: 0rph3u5 on October 07, 2012, 05:39:28 pm

Sound very very usefull ...

*sigh* One day I'll finally catch up with all that innovations to FREDing that came along while I wasn't looking too hard...